{"id":8952,"date":"2017-08-21T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powtoon.com\/blog\/?p=8952"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:58:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T16:58:26","slug":"make-it-awesome-series-summer-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powtoon.com\/blog\/make-it-awesome-series-summer-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"#MakeItAwesome \u2014 Summer Vacay Edition: What Is the Most Awesome Summer Vacation? [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Read Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes <\/span><\/span><p>The most awesome summer vacation: what&#8217;s your pleasure? A staycation at home with a good book? An extravagant five-star trip with all the luxuries? A family trip to the beach? A visit to Yellowstone?<\/p>\n<p>Summer vacations come in all forms \u2014 and all of them are awesome! Whether you love summer vacation because of the peace and quiet, or if you just like to get away from the regular work-a-day world, it&#8217;s an amazing thing to unplug and replenish yourself on vacation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Origins of Summer Vacation<\/h2>\n<p>The origins of summer vacation are a bit obscure, and never taught correctly. Maybe you learned what I learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>America started out as an agrarian society<\/li>\n<li>Children needed to be home in the summer to help out on the farm<\/li>\n<li>So they took a big break in the summer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What my teachers (and yours) left out was that all the work on a farm happens in the<em> spring (planting season)<\/em> and the <em>fall (harvest season)<\/em>. So what gives with summer vacation?<\/p>\n<p>I found an <a href=\"http:\/\/conversableeconomist.blogspot.co.il\/2013\/08\/the-myth-behind-origins-of-summer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">awesome blog post<\/a> from a few years ago that goes into depth about the origins of summer vacation. The twisting path school reformers took, and the emerging urbanized national culture of the day make for an awesome story. But my favorite argument educational reformers made for summer vacation had to do with the physical and mental health of the students:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;School reformers often argued that students needed substantial vacation for their health. Horace Mann wrote that overtaxing students would lead to &#8216;a most pernicious influence on character and habits &#8230; not infrequently is health itself destroyed by overstimulating the mind.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The Most Awesome Summer Vacation<\/h2>\n<p>And, of course, no discussion of awesomeness would be complete without the next installment in our #MakeItAwesome series:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/1penrbejvb.jsonp\" async=\"\"><\/script><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding: 100.0% 0 0 0; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_1penrbejvb videoFoam=true\" style=\"height: 100%; width: 100%;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>#MakeItAwesome Series<\/h2>\n<p>Hey, it\u2019s a series! That means there\u2019s more! Check out the other episodes of the #MakeItAwesome series as they\u2019re released below:<\/p>\n<h3><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powtoon.com\/blog\/make-it-awesome-series-july-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#MakeItAwesome \u2014 Ep. 1: What Is the Most Awesome American Food?<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powtoon.com\/blog\/make-it-awesome-series-world-emoji-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>#MakeItAwesome \u2014 Ep. 2: What Is the Most Awesome Emoji?<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powtoon.com\/blog\/make-it-awesome-series-summer-vacation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>#MakeItAwesome \u2014 Ep. 3: What Is the Most Awesome Summer Vacation?<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powtoon.com\/blog\/make-it-awesome-series-halloween\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>#MakeItAwesome \u2014 Ep. 4: What Is the Most Awesome Halloween Costume?<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<h2>Let\u2019s Hear YOUR Awesomeness<\/h2>\n<p>Maybe you agree \u2014 maybe you disagree! 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